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Trudy wrote a new post 1 month ago
Thoughts About the Universe These Mornings by Laura Marello Everything is connected. Most of what the universe energy is, creation/destruction energy, we don’t understand. We underestimate the […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 month, 4 weeks ago
A Winter's Tale by Trudy Hale 4:30 a.m. A barely audible humming wakes me from a deep sleep. It’s a faint yet unfamiliar sound. I am used to the quiet, to the ordinary sounds, so t […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 3 months ago
Merry Christmas from Streetlight! Merry Christmas from all of us at Streetlight!!
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Trudy wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Call of the Wild by Trudy Hale I wanted to write about hunting season here in the rural countryside, the howling packs of dogs, the men and women who sit in muddy trucks on the side […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 months ago
One August Afternoon by Trudy Hale I am waiting at the Chicken Co-op, pronounced ‘coop,’ inside the Exxon gas station and convenience store in Lovingston, Virginia. A couple of blo […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 8 months, 2 weeks ago
A Bridge to Somewhere by Alex Joyner Something there is that doesn’t love a bridge. At least on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Oh, when I lived there, we were proud of the engineering mar […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 10 months ago
The Pleasure of Ruins by Trudy Hale Not too long ago, I was walking my black lab down Norwood Road when an acquaintance stopped his truck to chat. He said he was concerned about my […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 11 months, 1 week ago
I Can't Believe It. I Forgot to Read Jane Austen! by E. H. Jacobs I can’t help thinking about what I haven’t read. Every year, I try to read at least one piece of classic literature that I had overlooked, never got […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
A Small Marvel by Trudy Hale After an eighteen-hour flight with a connection in Dubai, my daughter, Tempe, and I landed in Delhi. Throughout the trip I posted photographs on […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
My Wife Is In Love by E. H. Jacobs Five years ago, my wife fell in love. I’m not talking about me (we have been married thirty-nine years, so I hope the falling in love thing happened m […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
I had heard when you get older you revert to a lot of your tastes and activities when young, but I disregarded it, until I started buying old Joni Mitchell and Buffalo Springfield albums, and listening to the […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
‘The silence gathered and struck me. It bashed me broadside from nowhere, as if I’d been hit by a plank. It dropped from the heavens above me like yard goods; ten acres of fallen, invisible sky choked the fie […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
When I was thirteen, my mother left us. It was on a Sunday and she knew that Daddy, my brothers and I were away, visiting a family out on the old Nashville road. A moving van pulled up to the duplex and my […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
I once held my cousin in a Dixie cup. At least a part of him. The improvised committal on the banks of Nottoway Swamp was a fitting send-off for a man who wanted no ceremony. Prone to eccentricity and melancholia […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 year, 11 months ago
When my late husband set out to write his memoir he purchased Life As Story, by Tristine Rainer. He studied the book’s exercises and wrote in the margins. I want to read his annotations again. Feel the swoop of […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 2 years, 1 month ago
There is a 1990s concept, or perhaps an older concept made new and currently gaining currency, called “re-wilding.” It is the prospect of making tamed and domesticated things wild again. Since 2008 or so, this con […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
The Twitter world ‘blew-up’ with writers weighing in on the “Bad Art Friend” article in the New York Times in early October (NY Times link below).
I had sympathized with the kidney donor whose life and letter […]
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Trudy commented on the post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 2 years, 6 months ago
Dear Bess,
Thank you. Yes, Billy would have loved the absurdity
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Trudy wrote a new post 2 years, 6 months ago
This is a true story.
After my husband Billy died in June of 2020, his ‘step daughter’ Zoe, a beautiful and vivacious woman of fifty offered her home in Santa Barbara to hold his memorial. We waited until the […]
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Trudy commented on the post, Resources for Writers: Snowflakes in a Blizzard 2 years, 6 months ago
Hi Don,
I’m not sure what you’re asking.
If you like you may email me at trudyhale@gmail.com
so I can be more prompt in my reply.Thanks,
Trudy Hale, editor
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